63: Mainland passage opened

Three months later, a ray of Morning Light penetrated the workshop, shining on Hu Zhenxing's face.

His bloodshot eyes gleamed with excitement.

Before him, a colossal machine, glowing with a dark golden metallic luster, hummed with a low thrum; the world's first magical steam engine was officially born.

Every component of this machine was a work of art.

The inner wall of the boiler was inlaid with fire elemental magic crystals, which displayed lava-like flowing patterns under high temperatures;

Water elemental runes were engraved on the transmission shaft, emitting a deep blue light as the machine operated;

Most astonishing was the cylinder section, where miniature wind elements were Sealed onto pistons personally forged from mithril by the Dwarf King, making the entire power System almost entirely free of friction loss.

Hu Zhenxing gazed at the steam engine before him in disbelief: "I can't believe it actually succeeded!"

The Dwarf King boasted: "How about it, old Human? Now you know how powerful our Dwarf race is, don't you?!" Saying that, he heavily patted the steam engine's casing, and the machine immediately let out a joyful roar, with the exhaust port spewing not ordinary white mist, but magical steam with colorful halos.

Hu Zhenxing's notebook was densely filled with test data: a thermal efficiency of an astonishing 92%, a single-unit output power equivalent to three hundred galloping horses exerting force simultaneously, yet fuel consumption was only one-tenth of traditional steam engines.

These numbers made him both excited and dazed—such a powerful power source could almost meet all current industrial demands; he even felt that there was no need to research any electricity System, and a world centered around steam could be completely built.

Over the next two years, with the magical steam engine as the core, real modern factories began to be built!

Factories sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

In the textile factories, hundreds of magical looms operated day and night without stopping;

In the steel factories, the furnaces, driven by magical steam, reduced the time it took to melt Ore by four-fifths;

Most shocking was the newly built armory, where repeating ballistas were being assembled on the production line, their range and power reaching unprecedented levels. The Dwarf race had reached a state of Qi Deviation with steam machinery, and were researching mechanical airships, mechanical prosthetics, mechanical fortresses, and so on, all centered around steam machinery.

[Civilization Warning: Detected Transmigrator Civilization has reached the Steampunk Era]

[Current Civilization Coefficient: 1.0]

[Cultivate Coefficient: 0.4]

[Danger Coefficient: 0]

[Estimated Settlement Reward: 140]

No way, Lu Chen remembered that the steam civilization coefficient should be 0.6, why is it 1.0? It seems that this steampunk and steam civilization are two completely different civilizations.

Warning! Warning!

Transmigrator Civilization has entered the 1.0 era, and the first spatial channel will be opened.

Rumble!!!

The entire sky suddenly trembled violently, as if torn by an invisible giant hand.

Blinding light poured down like a tide, dyeing the clouds within a hundred-mile radius a bizarre silver-white.

Residents on the ground covered their eyes, and children huddled in their mothers' arms in fear.

In this suffocating glare, a spatial rift spanning the sky slowly opened, its edges flickering with unstable purple arcs, and within it surged deep, nebula-like matter.

"Heavens, what is that?" A merchant in a Human city-state dropped his goods, trembling as he pointed to the sky.

The rift was rapidly expanding, eventually forming a gigantic channel over a thousand meters wide, like a heavenly path from mythology.

The elemental concentration of the entire Chaotic Continent fluctuated violently, and mages could clearly feel the magic power within them boiling uncontrollably.

The strongest Mage of the Human Alliance, the Dean of the Star Magic Academy, Legendary Mage Luo Lan, suddenly looked up.

His Star Eyes, which could see through the essence of elements, narrowed slightly: "Spatial tear?" Before he finished speaking, his figure had already transformed into a streak of light, shooting straight into the sky, the twelve star gemstones inlaid on his robes lighting up simultaneously, trailing a brilliant wake behind him.

When Nolan hovered a hundred meters in front of the channel, the spatial turbulence rushing towards him almost tore apart his protective barrier.

The Legendary Mage, who had lived for a hundred years, had an unprecedentedly solemn expression. He could feel the Law power contained within the channel—that was a Domain that Mortals could not touch.

"Such exquisite spacetime folding is definitely beyond human capability; this must be the work of a deity!"

Just then, characters formed of pure light energy suddenly appeared at the entrance of the channel:

[Spatial Channel to the Eternal Continent]

[Opening Time: 24 hours]

[Maximum Capacity: 10 people]

"Eternal Continent?" Luo Lan's snow-white eyebrows furrowed tightly.

In his treasured ancient tome, "Chronicles of Creation," it was indeed recorded that there was an unknown continent on the other side of the world, but there was no magic power there, but rather an energy called Spiritual Qi.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!

Sounds of rushing through the air rang out one after another.

Dozens of Grand Magisters arrived by casting flight magic, followed by hundreds of Magisters.

On the other side of the sky, the Royal Gryphon Knights and the Shadow Legion, riding Black Dragons, arrived one after another.

Within just half an hour, the top powerhouses of the Chaotic Continent had gathered below the channel, and beams of light from various detection spells formed a net in the sky.

"Dean, sir." Lina, the Chief Grand Magister of the Elemental Department, landed beside Nolan, "Detection shows that the elemental composition on the other side of the channel has a 97% difference from our world."

She handed over a recording crystal, its internal data stream frantically jumping.

At this moment, everyone awaited Nolan's decision, as rash action in the face of an unknown spacetime channel could lead to catastrophe.

Nolan suddenly raised his staff, and the Star Core Crystal erupted with dazzling blue light.

A magical barrier with a diameter of ten thousand meters Blocked the area around the entrance.

"It's too dangerous to enter now. Everyone, set up aerial magic traps and guard this space completely. I have a premonition that the other continent will definitely send people over."

Immediately, everyone released magic one after another, setting up magic traps.

Fire mages released fire walls, blocking the exit;

Ice mages filled the space with frost particles; as soon as anyone touched them, they would condense into a frost storm;

Mages of wind and lightning elements jointly created rotating thundercloud clusters, from which purplish-blue lightning occasionally struck down.

Eight Great Masters of space elements stood at eight positions of the barrier, jointly setting up a gravity field!

The mages were very satisfied: "With such a defense, even if a deity came, it would be difficult to escape death!"

...Eternal Continent, south of the Great Chasm.

Eternal Night Emperor Night Mare looked up at the sky.

The spatial rift was slowly unfolding in the clouds, as shocking as a torn wound.

"All forces, be on alert!" When Nightmare approached the channel with a hundred thousand demon troops, the channel displayed golden text:

[Spatial Channel to the Chaotic Continent]

[Opening Time: 24 hours]

[Maximum Capacity: 10 people]

Nightmare's pupils contracted slightly; as an Emperor who had ruled the Eternal Night Empire for a hundred years, he flinched!

He was afraid that he would go and never return, after all, the unknown was the most terrifying.

"Underworld Song, you take nine elites to investigate."

Underworld Song was one of the Ten Great Demon Generals of the Eternal Night Empire, in the Tribulation Crossing Realm, controlling spatial karmic fire and sound wave Laws!

Behind him followed nine Peak Mahayana stage Eternal Night Imperial Guards.

Underworld Song knelt on one knee: "My King, rest assured, I will not fail my mission!"

Underworld Song, along with the nine elites, stepped into the mysterious channel under the watchful eyes of all.